Foundation for Chinese
Performing Arts
Summer FREE Concert @ NEC 2022
夏日系列音樂會
at New England Conservatory,
Boston, Massachusetts August 11 - 27, 2022
All concerts Admission Free, suggested donation $10 at door
Age 6 and under not admitted
CONCERT 4
Sunday,August 14,2022,7:30 pm
at
NEC's Williams Hall Chi Wei Lo 駱奇偉,piano
~Program~
Robert Schumann/Chi Wei Lo:
Carnaval, Op. 9, with improvisation(40 min)
Préambule
Pierrot
Arlequin
Valse noble
Eusebius
Floresta
Coquette
Replique
Papillons
Lettres dansantes
Chiarina
Chopin
Estrelle
Reconnaissance
Pantalon et Colombine
Valse allemande
Paganini (Intermezzo)
Aven
Promenade
Pause
Marche des Davidsbündler contre les Philistins
~
intermission ~
Tony Schemmer:
Lullaby for Alex
(3 min)
Chen Yi/Chi Wei Lo:
Variations on Awariguli,
with additional variations
(10 min)
Daniel Bernard Roumain/Chi Wei Lo:
Recomposing “Jam!”
(10 min)
Olivier Messiaen:
Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus
(10 min) XV: Le
baiser de l’Enfant-Jésus (The kiss of the Infant Jesus)
Quote from Boss and Barrasso of
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
:
"Seldom does one witness a concert so full of freshly inventive surprises as Chi
Wei Lo’s piano recital Sunday at NEC’s Williams Hall for the Foundation of
Chinese Performing Arts. Lo, will have a bright future in the field of
performance improvisation which he avidly pursues based on what we heard Sunday.
In bringing the unexpected to the familiar and also adding fun and good
humor…all in the context of great chops and sophisticated artistry, Lo
convincingly argued the case that improvisation has a real place in serious
music."
Admission Free,suggested donation $10 at door.
Age 6 and under not admitted.
中華表演藝術基金會
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
Lincoln,Massachusetts
event photos: Xiaopei Xu and Chi Wei Lo
Chi Wei Lo 駱奇偉,piano “Nervy,
cerebral, passionate, mysterious and sensual…Flowing, aloft, and at
the same time, grounded”
(BMInt), pianist and improviser Chi-Wei Lo can well and truly smash
the fourth wall. Having graduated from the Juilliard School under
Jerome Lowenthal and Hung-Kuan Chen, Lo enjoys interdisciplinary
collaboration and is expanding his creativity through different
performance formats. Lo is currently a doctoral candidate at the New
England Conservatory, majoring in contemporary piano improvisation,
where he was featured in a video as the representation of virtuosity
in 2019.
Immediate major collaborators include: North American Medical
Orchestra, Longwood Symphony Orchestra, Pink Noise, Flower Pistils,
Counterpoint Ensemble and New Asia Chamber Society. Lo has also
collaborated with Benjamin Zander, Tyshawn Sorey, Yazhi Guo, Joe
Morris, Nan-Chang Chen, Jaehyuck Choi, Hao Huang, and Xiaopei Xu,
who Lo frequently performs in recent years as a piano duo.
Lo’s interdisciplinary performances have been presented by the
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts, Harvard Musical Association,
Ukraine Forward, College Music Society, Lancaster International
Piano Festival, Tufts University, Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, UCLA,
Chinese American Museum (LA), Holland Music Sessions and German
Society Of Pennsylvania, to name a few.
In 2018, Lo was commissioned by the Kaohsiung Rapid Transit
Corporation (KRTC) for its 10 years anniversary, which led to the
album, Twelve Over Twelve, and the printing of Lo’s limited edition
metro-card.
His solo tours, The Dance of the Seven Deadly Sins, Declaration of
Aesthetics, Twelve Over Twelve, all included benefit concerts in
accord with the belief that musicians should give back to their
communities.
2005年參加波士頓胡桃山藝術學院 (Walnut
Hill School for the Arts) 中華藝術表演基金會舉行的協奏曲比賽榮獲第一名,在戶外音樂廣場 (Esplanade) 與波士頓芭蕾舞團指揮Jonathan
Mcphee波士頓長木樂團 (Long
Wood Symphony) 演出李斯特的《死之舞》。隨後獲得獎學金而跳級進入胡桃山藝術高中 (Walnut
Hill School for the Arts) 。
2016年奇偉與即興室內樂團The
Illustrators在紐約各地演出,一起錄製了一張實驗性專輯。2017年九月成為美國新英格蘭音樂學院 (New
England Conservatory) 博士候選人,主修現代鋼琴即興。2018年五月和Psychopomp
Contemporary Ensemble (普緒科蓬現代即興樂團) 在Bandcamp發行了第一張網路專輯。